June 10, 2013

The Morning Wrap

Revealed: The
individual who recently disclosed details about top-secret National Security Agency programs
is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and
current employee of the defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, the Guardianreports. "I understand
that I will be made to suffer for my actions," but "I will be
satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible
executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an
instant," Snowden said in a note accompanying the first set of documents he
provided.

Fewer Jobs: The legal industry lost 500 positions in May, The Am Law
Dailyreports. The sector had added jobs in March and April.

Cyberwarfare: President Barack Obama has
directed national security officials to create cyberwarfare abilities that could
be deployed with “little or no warning” against adversaries around the world, The Washington Postreports.

Google Suit: The U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Ninth Circuit on Monday will hear a suit seeking meaningful sanctions
against Google Inc. for surreptitiously uploading personal data from home Wi-Fi
networks, The Recorderreports.

Cleveland Indictment: Ariel Castro, the Cleveland
man accused of kidnapping and holding captive three young women in his house
for a decade, was indicted Friday on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of
kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious
assault and one count of possession of criminal tools, CNNreports.